St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-06-21
RUINED TWO LIVES.
A Bankrupt Spectator Attempts
Suicide by Hanging.

Suicide by Hanging.
GLENvIEw, Pa, June 20.-Monday
last Walter Wade, bold, dashing stock
and provision Speculator, came home
from California to fulfil promise of
marriage with Miss Fanny Eckert, which
was to take place at noon Thursday.
The most elaborate preparations had
been made, and the relatives and friends
emotion of pleasure for the happy
event. But Wade'S recent ill-luck in
the speculative field drove him to de-
Spair, and, rather than face the diSap-
pointment which would inevitably fol-
low, he attempted suicide Wednesday
and now lies hopelesSly insane at the
home of his parents, some distance from
this place. Walter is the only son OF j.
Weiner Wade, who, soon after his mar
rage, fell heir to large fortune. After
the young man had completed his col
legiate studies and graduated with
high honors, he decided to take
trip to California before settling
down, and so informed his parents.
They entreated him to remain at
home, but to no purpose. After four
years stay in California he returned
home a wealthy man and renewed his
engagement to Miss Eckert, who, after
four years waiting, never doubted his
sincerity, and he again left for the
West. The wedding was set for June
10; but his character was too weak to
resist the social temptations that now
best him. An irresistible fOndneSS for
wine and champagne Suppers took pos
session of him, which was soon followed
by every form of wild and reckless dis
sipation. Then luck turned against
him and he began to loose money until
his fortune was nearly swept away. De
pressed in spirits, the dashing Specu-
lator returned home. On Wednesday
afternoon he remarked to his father
that he desired to write some
pose he retired to his room, giving
Instructions that his privacy must not
be intruded upon. Everything in the
way of preparation for the wedding
next day had reached point Of COM
pleteneSS, and at 5 p. ma friend OF the
groom called to see him. AS the matter
was urgent, his father went upstairs
and called him. He repeated the call,
and receiving no response forced the
door open. To his horror he beheld his
son suspended from haltar-Strap, with
the other end knotted around the bed
post, almost dead from Strangulation.
lie quickly CUT the strap ana pIaceu Tie
body on the bed, and then quietly but
quickly summoned a physician. The
doctor said that another minute would
have produced death, and that, while
he might possibly survive, he would be
hopelessly insane. The business letters
which he was supposed to be writing
were to Miss Eckert and his parents.
They told of his dissipation and of his
losses at gambling, ana of his complete
ruin. He says in his letter to the young
lady:
For months had constant run of i'll luck.
The ardor of gambling, unlike every other
passion, is rather increased than diminished
by loss and disappointment. Without being
warned, therefore, by ill success, 1 still went
on until nearly every dollar is gone, together
with the $4,000 that was placed in my
hands for safekeeping until the day of our
marriage. Following the bent of my evil
genius sum after sum was taken and all alike
buried in that accursed vortex which had
already swallowed up SO much for me.
Miss Eckert was completely pros
trated. For few hours yesterday she
sat by the bedside of her lover and lis
tened to his rawlings over the stock and
provision markets. Wade is thirty-five
years old.